Aim: to foster interaction and collaboration in theory and applications, to provide a discussion forum for scientists from different disciplines and practitioners from companies where they can inspire and learn from each other, meet new people, form new research alliances and plan new joint research projects.

Format: A single track for talks in the conference center with enough time for discussions outside the conference hall. All participants stay in the workshop hotel and book their room through Registration & Accommodation section of this web-site. Participation fees are not charged to such participants, they pay the costs for accommodation and catering to the hotel at the hotel.

Venue: Grand Hotel San Michele near Cetraro on the West, Tyrrhenian sea coast of Southern Italy. Photo gallery

Time: Amalea is organised twice per year: 

• Amalea - early summer (June-July)  https://sites.google.com/view/amalea/home (2-8 July 2023, 9-15 June 2024) 

• Amalea2 - late summer (September) https://sites.google.com/view/amalea2/home (3-9 Sept. 2023, 8-14 Sept. 2024)

Archive: https://sites.google.com/view/amalea-archive/home

Program committee: more names will be added

Marco Aiello (Stuttgart, DE)

Enrique Alegre Gutierres (Leon, ES)

Athos Antoniades (Limassol, CY)

Erhardt Barth (Lübeck, DE)

Gyan Bhanot (New Jersey, USA)

Michael Biehl (Groningen, NL)

Kerstin Bunte (Groningen, NL)

Mario Cannataro (Catanzaro, IT)

Anna Carbone (Torino, IT)

Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Rome, IT)

Modesto Castrillon Santana (Las Palmas, ES)

Dante R. Chialvo (San Martin, AR)

Anthony Cohn (Leeds, UK)

Alberto Del Bimbo (Firenze, IT)

Schahram Dustdar (Vienna, AT)

Nicola Fabiano (Rome, IT)

Pedro Galindo (Cadiz, ES)

Georgi Gaydadjiev (Delft, NL)

Wolfgang Gentzsch (Regensburg, DE)

Javier Gonzalez Jimenez (Malaga, ES)

Hossein Khiabanian (New Jersey, USA)

Stiliyan Kalitzin (Utrecht, NL)

Alexander Lazovik (Groningen, NL)

Danilo Mandic (London, UK)

Thomas Martinetz (Lübeck, DE)

Loizos Michael (Nicosia, CY)

Daniele Nardi (Rome, IT)

Constantinos Pattichis (Nicosia, CY)

Nicolai Petkov (Groningen, NL)

Petia Radeva (Barcelona, ES)

Alessia Saggese (Salerno, IT)

Rafael Munoz Salinas (Cordoba, ES)

Guido Sanguinetti (Trieste,IT)

Christos N. Schizas (Nicosia, CY)

Sebastiano Stramaglia (Bari, IT)

Nicola Strisciuglio (Enschede, NL)

Estefania Talavera (Enschede, NL)

Joao Tavares (Porto, PT)

Carlos Travieso Gonzalez (Las Palmas, ES)

Mario Vento (Salerno, IT)

Christian Wolf (Grenoble, FR)

Dietlind Zuehlke (Koeln, DE)

Organisation committee:

Nicolai Petkov (Groningen, NL) (N dot Petkov at rug dot nl)

You can submit an abstract using this abstract submission form. After submitting the form you will receive an email with a link that you can use to edit your submission.

Talks (presenting author marked by *):

Danilo Mandic 1: Neural network interpretability; Imperial College London

Sebastiano Stramaglia: Higher order dependencies in multivariate data; Dipartimento Interagendo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Rafaël Brandt* (a), Bauke Risselada (a), Georgi Gaydadjiev (b): Infusing explicit domain knowledge in Artificial Neural Networks for Tabular Data; (a) Univ. of Groningen, (b) Delft University of Technology

Loizos Michael 1: Actionable Predictions; Open University of Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence

Loizos Michael 2: It's because we are lazy...; Open University of Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence

Danilo Mandic 2: Machine learning on graphs; Imperial College London

Andrés Tello* (a), Huy Truong (a), Viktoriya Degeler (b), Alexander Lazovik (a): Graph Machine Learning for Pressure Estimation in Water Distribution Networks; (a) University of Groningen, (b) University of Amsterdam

Alexander Lazovik: Engineering Machine Learning Applications; University of Groningen

Elena Lazovik*, Shreshtha Sharma, Syrine Ben Aziza, Selma Causevic: A Privacy-Enhancing Federated Learning Framework for Multi-Party Distributed Environments; TNO Netherlands

Mario Cannataro: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities; University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro

Nicolai Petkov: Can lessons from electrophysiology help in the quest for explainable AI; University of Groningen

Jiapan Guo 1(a)*, Baoqiang Ma (b), and Marianna Sijtsema (b): Multi-label learning for prognostic outcome prediction in head and neck cancer patients; (a) University of Groningen, (b) University Medical Center Groningen

Htet Htet Htun*, Michael Biehl, Nicolai Petkov: Machine Learning-based Stock Market Prediction; University of Groningen

Danilo Mandic 3: Hearables; Imperial College London

Jiapan Guo 2: Revisiting Feature Acquisition Bias for Few-shot Fine-Grained Image Classification; University of Groningen

Astone Shi 1: AI-Powered Financial Analysis: Speed, Precision, and Evolution; University of Groningen

Astone Shi 2: AI Voice Cloning and Singing Simulations; University of Groningen

Round table: AI in Education; moderator Danilo Mandic

Generic schedule, Mo-Fr: The talks are 30 or 60 min, including discussion

10:00-11:00 Talks, 11:00-11:30 Refreshments; 11:30-12:30 Talks

12:30-17:00 lunch break (lunch at the beach restaurant)

17:00-17:30 Refreshments; 17:30-19:30 Talks

20:30-22:00 Dinner at the hotel restaurant

Social events: Mo Welcome drinks, Tue Calabrian dinner, Wed Pizza and BBQ, Thu Gala dinner

Registration:

Only participants are admitted who stay in the workshop hotel and book their room through the registration and accommodation form. Participation fees are not charged to such participants, they pay the costs for accommodation and catering to the hotel at the hotel. The registration and accommodation form is only for room reservation, not for payment. Participants who want to pay in advance by receiving an invoice, please, contact the organisation who will request the hotel to issue an invoice.

If you fill in the registration form after August 18, we first need to ask the hotel if there is still room availability, we will inform you asap after that.

Accommodation - room prices per day on full board basis (breakfast, lunch and dinner with water and house wine included; scheduled workshop tea/coffee/refreshements breaks and special dinners included):

Room type Price for Price for 

1 person 2 persons

Double standard       175 Euro 265 Euro

Double with sea view 185 Euro 275 Euro

Superior (one left) 195 Euro 285 Euro  (a bedroom for 2 persons + a sitting room)

Suite (fully booked) 205 Euro 295 Euro  (a bedroom for 2 persons + a sitting room 

  and a terrace overlooking the sea.) 

The above prices do not include the city tax (1,20 Euro per day per person).

Destination: Gran Hotel San Michele, Cetraro (Calabria), Italy

Air: The nearest airport, Lamezia Terme (SUF) is 75 km from the hotel. The hotel can arrange for transfer, see below. Alternatively, you can fly to Naples (NAP) or Rome and then continue by train to Cetraro or Paola. The hotel can arrange for transfer from Paola and Cetraro train stations, see below.

Train: Cetraro has a train station on which regional trains stop. Fast trains stop at Paola train station that is about 21 km from the hotel. From Paola you can travel by a regional train to Cetraro or use the shuttle service directly to the hotel. The hotel can arrange for transfer from Cetraro and Paola train stations, see below.

For train timetables and electronic tickets see https://www.trenitalia.com

If you, for instance use as a query on that site 'From: Napoli Centrale | To: Cetraro' the system will give you possible connections with their total travel time. You are advised to use a fast train, called Freccia or Intercity from Napoli Centrale to Paola. To go from Paola train station to the hotel you can either use a regional train from Paola to Cetrao (10 min.) in the result of your querry or skip that train and use the shuttle service to reach the hotel. If on departure you use a fast train from Paola to go to your next destination, you are advised to use the shuttle service to go from the hotel to Paola train station - if you instead use a reginal train (Regionale) from Cetraro to Paola, it may have a delay and you may miss the connection with the fast train.

Possible routes: International participants can fly to Lamezia Terme or Naples or Rome.

From Lamezia Terme airport, the easiest way is to ask the hotel to arrange for transfer.

From Naples or Rome, one can take a fast train to Paola that is 21 km from the hotel. There are also regional trains to Cetraro. The hotel can arrange for transfer from Paola and Cetraro train stations.

Transfer: one-way prices to be shared by actual number of passengers (except Cetraro)

Lamezia Airport: car (3 pax): Euro 95, minibus (8 pax): Euro 127

Paola train station: car (3 pax): Euro 50, Minibus (8 pax): Euro 77

Cetraro train station: Euro 5 per person

Supplement for night shuttle services (between 1.00 am and 5.00 am): 30 Euro.

If you want to use any of these options you can fill in this transfer booking form.

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